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Tom Parker

@tdgparker.bsky.social
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Counterterrorism practitioner and former UN war crimes investigator. Author of Avoiding the Terrorist Trap. Personal tweets, retweets ≠ endorsement 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦

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Phil Gurski @borealissaves.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“The last remnants of truth tellers at the intel agencies are holding on by their fingertips" - Dem Rep. Brad Sherman. In Trump's fantasy world where sycophants and minions rule, this is very true www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Saudis have not ruled out developing nuclear weapons, U.S. intelligence assesses
The sobering outlook has compounded concerns from some U.S. lawmakers about President Donald Trump’s agreement to assist the kingdom with establishing a civilian nuclear program.
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Adam "Spookatron5000" Jacobson @adjacobson.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
"Avoiding the Terrorist Trap" by @tdgparker.bsky.social
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Tom Parker @tdgparker.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Another fantastic series from ‪@holland-tom.bsky.social‬ and Dominic Sandbrook and the @theresthistory.bsky.social‬ team delving into the story of Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth. He played a crucial part at the end of the Civil War, but incredibly he was also there at the beginning…
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Tom Parker @tdgparker.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Another fantastic series from ‪@holland-tom.bsky.social‬ and Dominic Sandbrook and the @theresthistory.bsky.social‬ team delving into the story of Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth. He played a crucial part at the end of the Civil War, but incredibly he was also there at the beginning…
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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 05/06/2025
#Constellations #Benjamin #FredricJameson
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Matt Wilkinson @justcallmatt.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
WATCH: 101st Airborne Division commander Maj. Gen. David Gardner spoke to soldiers and local high school students at the Carentan theater before the soldiers toured a WWII battlefield. Read more: www.stripes.com/theaters/eur...
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
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Tom Parker @tdgparker.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Which also rather begs the question, if he thinks Trump is a sex offender why did Elon support his election?
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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
The best response to Abundance talk is a single tweet from Ruairi Wood, RIP brother.
Tweet from @thekafkadude

It's really funny how America and the UK stopped investing in infrastructure in the 1980s because the free market will pave potholes and make the trains run on time and now literally nothing works and you cannot go anywhere or do anything but like 4 people are richer than God.
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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 31/05/2025
Yes, you did vote to deport moms.
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
its crazy how dominant germany was in science (especially chemistry) in the 19th century, it was basically the international language for scientists, people came from all over the world to train at heidelberg etc, and then....
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NPR @npr.org · 21/05/2025
Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
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Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn't warning the public like it was months ago
Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
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Joey Gartner @jgartnerlaw.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Incidents like this — law enforcement entering the wrong house — are already far too common. Go read @radleybalko.bsky.social "Rise of the Warrior Cop." It details how military-style policing has been normalized over decades and how common adverse outcomes come from mistakes on addresses.
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Tom Parker @tdgparker.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Legend
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I can’t believe he’s not wearing a tie. Outrageous display of disrespect.
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Joana Cook @joanacook.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I am so pleased to announce that Dr. Lynn Schneider and I have signed a contract with @columbiaup.bsky.social for our book “Extreme Childhoods: Growing Up in Families Affiliated with Violent Extremism and Terrorism.” /1
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Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨 @debbienorthway.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
News in our ABCNews24 in Australia
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Sarah Good @sassy0210.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Night Night, Blue Sky Walkers, sleep tight.😴 Sunset over my beloved Blue Ridge Mountains, NC.
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Tom Parker @tdgparker.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
The truly excellent @anitaanand.bsky.social, @willdalrymple.bsky.social, @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social and @empirepoduk.bsky.social series on The Troubles finishes strong by highlighting how even terrorist groups must operate within powerful political constraints on their behaviour (*a thread*)…
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James Crossland @jamescrossland.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Fun fact: Tsar Alexander II's Third Section (ancestor of Putin's FSB) planted spies on campuses, monitored student reading groups and sent a lot of young people to jail without trial #history teaches us things.
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Tom Parker @tdgparker.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Another banger Troubles episode from @anitaanand.bsky.social, @willdalrymple.bsky.social, @praddenkeefe.bsky.social and @empirepoduk.bsky.social highlighting another under-appreciated aspect of terrorism research – contagion theory. Yes, terrorists learn from other terrorist movements (*a thread*)…
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
This is why North Korea has the world's leading economy
Trumpists foolishly suggest banning all imports to cause massive economic growth in the long term.
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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Delighted to announce that my naval nerdery has peaked! I am now the Editor of our brand new maritime publication... ⚓️The Broadside⚓️ We're launching on Monday, with a stack of excellent articles lined up already. Subscribe for free below so you don't miss out! www.thebroadside.org.uk
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The Broadside | Substack
Maritime affairs in the 21st century. Click to read The Broadside, a Substack publication. Launched 9 days ago.
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Tom Parker @tdgparker.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Kudos to @anitaanand.bsky.social, @willdalrymple.bsky.social, @praddenkeefe.bsky.social and @empirepoduk.bsky.social for showing how state repression and human rights can breed and sustain terrorism. Terrorism research has long identified state violence as the #1 driver of terrorism (*a thread*)...
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Patrick Skinner @pmskinner.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Dear America. Due process is not something that doesn’t apply if you did a crime. It’s literally how we determine you did a crime. Due process is not just the ‘way’ of the justice system. It’s the ‘why’ as well. Due process means we all matter or none of us do. Act accordingly
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Mark Stout, Ph.D from Miskatonic University @markstout.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I'm very excited that @petercgrace.bsky.social's book, "The Intelligence Intellectuals" will be out soon (in publishing terms). It's a great book that gives us a new way of understanding the first decade or so of the CIA. And it's about analysis! Woo-hoo!
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Cynthia Miller-Idriss @milleridriss.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Very excited to receive the page proofs for my new book, Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism- forthcoming from Princeton University Press. Stay tuned for preordering & book tour info, hope to see many of you at in person events in the fall 🔥
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 24/02/2025
In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…
an archival black and white photograph of the KKK marching in Washington DC with the capitol behind them
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Mark Youngman @threatologist.com · 22/02/2025
The best* book ever written on the Caucasus Emirate’s ideology is now available for pre-order. The Caucasus Emirate: Ideology, identity and insurgency in Russia’s North Caucasus (Manchester University Press) amzn.eu/d/6QrSQ3h * and only
Front cover of The Caucasus Emirate: Ideology, identity and insurgency in Russia’s North Caucasus
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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 05/02/2025
President Trump’s order to designate certain “international cartels” as terrorists won’t advance US public safety, writes @rlevinsonwaldman.bsky.social But it may ensnare many others with little to no links to #DrugTrafficking, let alone #terrorism. www.justsecurity.org/107400/trump...
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The Dangerous Sweep of Trump’s Plan to Designate Cartels as Terrorist Organizations
Bringing foreign cartels under the umbrella of terrorism may seem appealing, but it is unnecessary and dangerous.
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Patrick Skinner @pmskinner.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
For what it’s worth, when I spent years in Afghanistan and Iraq, the most powerful thing I ever saw was USAID digging wells & repairing schools. The most effective power we will ever have.
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🇺🇦Proud European from🇪🇺🇦🇹 🌏 @e2dot7182818284.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Auch empfohlen, basierend auf @tdgparker.bsky.social s Buch www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MfmCwjIlLw (repost Korrektur mit YT preview, video clip ist vom 21.10.2023, dh man kann Vorhersagen & Realität vergleichen)
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Israel, Gaza and the Terrorism Trap
YouTube video by Brendan Miller
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Foreign Affairs @foreignaffairs.com · 03/02/2025
“More than at any time in recent history, there is a real prospect that the Kurdistan Workers’ Party could disband—finally removing a threat that has plagued Turkey for the past 40 years,” writes Halil Karaveli.
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The End of the PKK?
Assad’s fall could seal the fate of Turkey’s terrorist foe.
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Jess Davis @jessmarindavis.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
ISIS in Somalia is the linchpin in the financial network of the broader Islamic State and its groups, cells, and franchises. ctc.westpoint.edu/the-financia...
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The Financial Future of the Islamic State - Combating Terrorism Center at West Point
Abstract: The fall of the Islamic State’s caliphate in Iraq and Syria significantly impacted the group’s ability to fundraise through territorial control. Despite this loss, the group retained substan...
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Thomas Juneau @thomasjuneau.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
One of the main points in the foreign interference commission's final report: there are still important flaws in how we connect intelligence to policy making in Canada. That is precisely the topic of the book @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social and I wrote: www.sup.org/books/politi...
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Intelligence Analysis and Policy Making | Stanford University Press
Canada is a key member of the world's most important international intelligence-sharing partnership, the Five Eyes, along with the US, the UK, New Zealand, and Australia. Until now, few scholars have ...
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Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Elon Musk and other tech oligarchs are making it impossible to conduct free and fair elections anywhere. By Anne Applebaum t.co/GvzkATHty4?s...
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Elon Musk Is Giving Europeans a Headache
He and other tech oligarchs are making it impossible to conduct free and fair elections anywhere.
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Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Argentine-Croatian criminologist Juan Vucetich died on 25 January 1925. He set up the world's first police fingerprint bureau, in Buenos Aires in 1891. A year later, he helped solve the first ever murder case using fingerprinting as evidence: drangelabuckley.substack.com/p/first-murd...
Black and white photo of Juan Vucetich. He has a long face with chiselled features and a long nose. His hair is grey and thinning, and he has a grey moustache and goatee beard. He is wearing a dark jacket, and a white shirt with a black tie.
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Dr. Jacquelyn Schneider @jackieschneider.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
It’s out! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
That'll do it.
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Vincent Foucher @vincentfoucher.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
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Tom Parker @tdgparker.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Courtesy of the unfathomable mysteries of the Amazon algorithm, the Kindle edition of Avoidng the Terrorist Trap is currently selling for the bargain price of $31.16. Now is the perfect moment to invest in a copy. Go on, treat yourself.
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
For history’s sake, record of a late stage capitalism life arc
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Your Automobile Insurance is up 73% — VOTE FOR TRUMP, I'LL CUT THAT NUMBER IN HALF!
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Does anyone have access to private firefighters to protect our home in Pacific Palisades? Need to act fast here. All neighbors houses burning. Will pay any amount. Thank you.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
In case you were in any doubt, Trump's ranting about Panama is ABSOLUTE INSANITY. And bottomless ignorance. (Canal transfer negotiations started *under Nixon*, completed under Carter. The main proponent was the US military.) More to come, but background: fallows.substack.com/p/panama-is-...
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Panama Is Back in the News. That Can Be a Good Thing.
The Panama Canal and its home country should be newly important to Americans. But in the opposite way from what Donald Trump has been talking about.
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Tom Parker @tdgparker.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Quality burn from the legendary Larry
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🇺🇦Proud European from🇪🇺🇦🇹 🌏 @e2dot7182818284.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Terrorismus ist ein relativ junges politisches Phänomen, dass das im Kontext eines autoritären Regimes zu einem Problem wird, ist mm wenig überraschend? Empfehle zum Thema @tdgparker.bsky.social youtu.be/VJeh3bw1Fw0?...
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Avoiding the Terrorist Trap: Why Respect for Human Rights is the Key to Defeating Terrorism
YouTube video by United Nations Library Vienna
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micchiato 🎋 @micchiato.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
“Today in Labor History January 5, 1919: Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg launched the Spartacist Uprising in Berlin …. the Social Democrats got the anti-Communist Freikorps paramilitary to fight for their side …. Many [Freikorps] went on to [become] Nazis”
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Attached: 1 image Today in Labor History January 5, 1919: Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg launched the Spartacist Uprising in Berlin. Part of the post-WWI Revolution occurring throughout Germany, ...
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Lisa Stampnitzky 🤷🏻‍♀️ @lisastampnitzky.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Hmmm
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